A group of 60 influential non-governmental organizations have targeted global supply chains, and are leveraging the forthcoming G7 summit in Japan this May. In a joint statement, the group has expressed concern that the summit will “fail to adequately address the grave human rights violations and environmental destruction that continue throughout global supply chains”.... The NGOs want to build on gains they perceived during the G7 summit in Germany in 2015, when G7 leaders collectively pledged to promote “responsible supply chains”. This grouping, which the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations terms an “informal bloc of industrialized democracies” and includes the US, Germany, UK, Japan, France, Canada and Italy (Russia was ditched in 2014 after it annexed Crimea), publicly supported the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. ... Japan will have its work cut out during the summit as host nation with multiple opportunities of being embarrassed in front of the world. There are several major Japanese NGOs in the collective that plans to pressure G7 leaders ...